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Since the purchase of more than 23,000 Spanish light and heavy arquebuses and birdguns from Macao a few months ago, the new Imperial Army has gradually abandoned bows and crossbows and three-eyed guns. Muskets are relatively easy to get started, and a recruit who does not know firearms at all, as long as he trains for a month and shoots dozens of shots, he can become a qualified musketeer, and he can fight the enemy when he is pulled into the battlefield.

Unlike archers, there is no training of more than a year, it is not accurate at all, the training cycle is too long, I can't afford to wait, and the materials are not easy to find, and it is not easy to manufacture, not to mention the three-eyed gun, the effective range is only about twenty steps, it is too short, and the ignition is also troublesome.

It is this kind of garbage firearm, which was used as the main equipment by many Ming troops and even border troops in the past, which is really sad!

One hundred and fifty steps, one hundred and forty steps, one hundred and thirty steps, one hundred and twenty steps......

As the arrays of the two sides continued to approach, the front army on the left had gradually entered the effective range of the turtledove.

Zhu Youhua waved the command flag to stop the army and ordered to prepare for the attack.

The former camp owner will be ordered to quickly wave the order flag: "The first row of gunners prepare, light the fire - let's go!" ”

Originally, the firing of the musket had to go through nearly ten steps, such as charging, pressing, loading, charging the fire rope, and ignition. After completing the entire reloading process, it would be nice to be able to fire one shot with thirty breaths. However, the Imperial Camp Guards had obviously already taken this into account and had done all the steps before ignition in advance, so that if only the last ignition process remained, the speed would be faster.

After just two or three breaths, bam! Bang! Bang! ……

More than 400 heavy muskets fired at the same time, and after a burst of smoke rose, a hundred paces away on the left army's side, dozens of left soldiers were immediately put on hold by the lead bullets fired by the heavy muskets, and there was a wail, and the turtledove could penetrate the iron armor within 80 steps, and it was easy to shoot the left soldiers wearing light armor in about 100 steps.

The equipment of the left striker is not as perverted as the Manchurian Eight Banners wearing several layers of iron armor, they only have some cotton armor and armor to protect themselves, which is still because they need a certain amount of protection as a forward soldier and horse.

In the rear military formation, most of the battalion soldiers could not even wear cotton armor, they all wore old mandarin duck battle jackets, and at most they were wrapped with a layer of iron net as protection, and only about 1,000 family guards and military academies above the head of the team could put on iron armor, and the firearms, waist knives, and longbows they held were the most sophisticated batch in the battalion.

Among them, the armor rate of the battalion head of the Liaodong lineage is generally higher than that of the battalion head of Shaanxi, and as for the strength of more than 1,000 family guards, it is the real essence of the whole army, and it is the absolute main force, but because the number is too small, it is not at an extremely critical moment, and it is generally reluctant to use it. It can only rely on continuous killing, survival of the fittest, and slow accumulation and cultivation over time.

According to the past situation, in a war, as long as the main force of the feudal towns is not seriously damaged, and when they have the opportunity to loot a batch of money and grain, and then erect a recruiting banner, they can gather tens of thousands of horses in a short period of time, and they will be prestigious, so no matter how many wars the feudal towns have experienced, as long as the strength of the descendants is not dispersed, it is not difficult to make a comeback. In the previous battles, a total of more than 300 Ding under Zuo Liangyu's command were killed under the muskets, artillery and cavalry of the imperial camp, which can be regarded as a broken nerve.

The arquebus, a primitive firearm, because it is a front-loading smoothbore, has a very low long-range hit rate, even if it is a turtledove, even if the lethality is still very strong fifty steps away, but there is nothing to say about the quasi-head, only a salvo of many muskets concentrated together can have a greater killing effect on the enemy's soldiers and horses, even so the overall hit rate is still not very high, more than 400 turtledove salvos can kill and injure dozens of left troops a hundred steps away, the effect is already very good.

After firing, the first row of musketeers quickly withdrew from the gap between the arrays into the rear formation, and the second row of turtledoves prepared the arquebus.

There were five platoons of heavy musketeers, firing alternately, with more than 400 people in each platoon, and under the command of the military academy's command flag, the horizontal formation changed from sparse to tight, forming a dense long formation. Comparatively speaking, the lethality has also been correspondingly much enhanced.

After firing a wave of five rounds, a large number of swordsmen and spearmen and bird guns and three-eyed guns of the front army of the left army were played, and they fell to the ground one by one, and the wooden rattan cards were pierced a lot, and the casualties were heavy, and the front army array suddenly sank into a lot, and suddenly became a little chaotic.

The rest of the left army was shocked when they saw this, they didn't expect the imperial court's muskets to shoot so far, and they didn't care about the battalion officer's military orders and the range of the bows and arrows and bird guns in their hands were not enough.

It's a pity that because of the distance, the lead bullets of arrows and shotguns are basically no lethal effect when they reach eighty steps away, not to mention that the musketeers of the front army of the imperial camp are wearing iron armor, wearing iron combat boots, wearing all eight-petal hats and iron-pointed helmets, and they are not afraid of flying lead bullets and arrows at all, and the crossbowmen and firearms of the front army of the left army crackled for a long time, which looked very lively, but they almost did not kill and injure a few musketeers in front of the imperial camp.

The absolute difference in strength gave them a deep sense of powerlessness, and even Huang Degong's subordinates, who were guarding the two wings on one side of the imperial court, were shocked by the strict queue of the imperial camp and the neat attack methods. With such strength, it is no wonder that he dared to use 8,000 cavalry to fight against the tens of thousands of rebel troops, and he really underestimated those new troops in the imperial camp before.

After seeing the performance of the new army under Huang Degong, many generals under Huang Degong's command have secretly withdrawn their doubts and contempt for them, and the most important strength in the army can only be recognized and respected by those veterans on the battlefield by showing enough muscles. The cohesion and morale of the pro-conquest army unconsciously increased by three points.

In the face of the continuous blow of the sharp heavy muskets on the side of the imperial court, many of the surviving Zuo soldiers were so frightened that they quickly wanted to retreat into the rear, Zuo Mengeng was angry and anxious, and issued several death orders, and the personal guard team killed a hundred and ten people in a row to prevent the rout of the front army. Barely managed to hold the formation.

Ordered the shield soldier to hold the shield in front of him to open the way, and continued to rush forward, and he was stagnant on the spot to correct the law. Even so, the soldiers of the front battalion still did not dare to move forward, and anyone could see that they had reached the zero point of collapse.